Previous Clients
Holly's CV is, quite frankly, ridiculous. She started teaching at the age of six, in her family's circus, and has been working solidly ever since. If this page were to include all of Holly's experience, you'd be sat here for weeks. So here are the edited highlights to give you an idea of the range of Holly's experience.
The following list doesn't include any of Holly's plentiful self-generated work which appears on other pages on this website, including:
- 17 years of creating, promoting and facilitating adult Workshops.
- Being Artistic Director of solo improvisation company, Beyond The Ridiculous
- Co-founding The Online Clown Academy with Robyn Hambrook during the pandemic, to provide spaces for clowns to play and connect across the globe through Zoom workshops and conferences.
- One-to-one Creative Consultancies and Supervision.
Specially Commissioned Work
Sharpham Trust
Embodied Voice workshop and Facilitator Training for retreat leaders and coordinators.
University of Bristol
Clowning as a key to creative thinking workshop for the Department of Innovation
Taking Flight Theatre Company
Introduction to Clowning 2-day workshop
Norwich Clown Doctors
Play Day exploring connection through clowning
Apus Productions
2-day clowning immersion for street theatre artists
The Guild of Gwens (working title)
Company development session for new circus-theatre production company
Likely Story Theatre Company
A series of online creative / reflective sessions to support company development
Taking Flight Happiness Symposium
Online workshop for Welsh Theatre Artists: Increasing resilience through play
NHS Somerset
Online workshop for Somerset arts therapists: Increasing resilience through play
Exeter University
A journey into the archetype of the clown, a practical workshop for a phD research group
NHS Bristol
Exploring Connection Through Play: workshop for paediatricians in training
Dramatherapy Wales Conference
Key Note Speaker - Dropping into the archetype of the clown: how clowning can help us as creative arts therapists both inside and outside the therapy room.
Play Well Symposium, The Wellcome Institute
Speaker and panel member - How Clowning Can Create Space.
Mental Health in the Performing Arts, Equity South West Conference
Panel member - Mental Health in the rehearsal room / Open Space facilitator
TEDx Bristol
Talk: How Can Clowning Lead Us Into Connection?
Stepping Out Theatre Company
A series of sessions: Exploring The Self Through Playful Inquiry
City of Bristol College, Creative Arts Therapy Course
A practical exploration of Clown-o-therapy
Dramatherapy Southwest Conference
A practical exploration of Clown-o-therapy
Dancevoice facilitator training
A practical exploration of Clown-o-therapy
The Psychedelic Society
Performance Lecture: Accessing The Psychedelic World Through Clowning
Engage, Theatre Royal, Bath
Introduction to Clowning Weekend for their adult learners
Bristol Museum - Clown in Residence
Created and delivered a programme of workshops and performances for Clowns: the Eggshibition. Read all about it here.
Bath Spa University
Created a Live Comedy Performance module and delivered it for 2nd year drama degree students for two years running. Responding to demand, I created an additional Advanced Comedy Performance module for 3rd years. Read all about it here.
Bath Fringe Festival
Co-designed and delivered New Work Works, a street artists development scheme for Bedlam Fair, Bath’s street theatre festival. Read all about it here.
The Clown and Power Symposium
Speaker / panel member: The Clowns' Vulnerability Is Their Greatest Power
Pontardawe Arts Centre Chrysalis Scheme
Facilitated artists' development during this residency for Welsh theatre makers.
Ramshacklicious, Atelier 231
Facilitated ensemble devising workshops for people with schizophrenia, to feed into the creative process of Ramshacklicious' Grime.
Ramshacklicious, Winchester Uni, Winchester Hat Fair
Facilitated a 5-day street theatre ensemble improvisation summer school for Winchester University Street Arts degree students.
Educircation
Created and facilitated 2 x 5-day workshops for European social circus teachers. The first was in Clown-o-therapy, the second was exploring how to use Nonviolent Communication in teaching circus.
London Speciality School of Psychiatry Conference
Delivered a seminar on The Importance Of Play In Psychiatry
Network of International Circus Exchange (NICE) Conference
Delivered a seminar - Exploring Connection Through Play
University of the Highlands
Delivered a seminar on Exploring Group Process Through Play
Nofit State Circus
Provided performance skills / devising workshops leading up to the creation of a Community Christmas Cabaret.
Eden Court Theatre
Designed and delivered a site-specific games theatre workshop.
Process Facilitator
Holly has held space for theatre artists to playfully explore themes as varied as feminism, depression, grief, eating disorders, political dissent, child psychology, alter egos, sexuality, isolation, co-dependance, corruption and deceit.
Saskia Solomons Fools Gold (R&D facilitator, fooling teacher)
Beth Calverley Arts Council England DYCP (creative consultant, facilitator for 2-day embodied verbal and vocal impro workshop for poets)
Michelle Savage Arts Council England DYCP (creative consultant, facilitator for 2-day embodied verbal and vocal impro workshop for circus performers)
Hazel Anderson Creative Explorations of Mental Health (process facilitator, online)
Bobak Champion Don't Panik, I'm Muslamic (Clown and audience interaction workshop and one-to-one character development)
Deaf and Fabulous Martha (Clown and audience interaction workshop online as part of their R&D)
Bladder and String Pale Blue Dot (Clown devising workshop as part of their R&D)
Hijinx Theatre Company 'Grumpy Unicorns' (Fire Starter / Interactive Clown Skills for Street Theatre Workshop)
Anna Carr Kindred (R&D)
Robbie Foulston The Play Shaman (R&D)
Hocus Pocus Theatre Company The Fun Clinic (Fire Starter / Site Specific Devising Through Clown Workshop)
Emily Souter Jonson Polyester (R&D Facilitator / Director)
Acrojou Vessel (Fire Starter)
China Blue Fish and Deborah Antoinette Queen Cunt (Dramaturg)
Liz Clarke Cannonballista (Facilitator / Director / Dramaturg for the solo touring version)
Helen Duff Vanity Bites Back (Facilitator / Director), Come With Me (R&D), When The Going Gets Duff (R&D), How Deep Is Your Duff (R&D)
Adam Blake Birth and Death and Here and Now (Fooling teacher, mentor)
Lucy Harrington Wake Up and Deirdrealize (R&D Facilitator)
Edward Rapley The Self Trilogy (Director) - 10 Ways To Die on Stage, The Middle Bit, Who Knows Where
Modest Geniuses Dying To Please You (R&D)
Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru Y Storm, Pridd and Fat Club (Clown consultant)
Tim Norwood and Charlotte Blackburn Apocalypse of the Mind (Facilitated exploration of mental health in the rehearsal room / mentor)
Jenny Drew Untitled Graphic Novel (process facilitator)
Broken Dream Co The Act (Workshop in physical devising / company mentoring)
Likely Story The Giant Who Had No Heart In His Body, RED (Fire Starter)
Mossy Crow Mossy Crow (Interactive storytelling workshop)
Freckled Mischief Oz (Process Facilitator)
Bianca Bertalot Cinco Coisas (Director)
Tessa Bide The Melody Makers (R&D Facilitator)
The Fabularium The Town Band of Bremen (Clown Consultant)
Eden Court Nobody's Home (Director)
Cirque Idyllic Monster Magic (Director)
Zucco and Co Ne Tombez Pas, Pirates, Le Quest du Noel (Director)
Cinecab-a-go-go Pearl and Dean.... and Irene (Director)
The Invisible Circus Beyond The Cabaret (Director), Carnyville 2 and 4 (Director)
Company / business development
Holly has held space for companies and businesses to explore their dynamics, communication and ethos, through play and reflection.
Likely Story Theatre Company
The Guild of Gwens (working title)
The Invisible Circus
Pirates of The Carabina
Performers Without Borders
Circus To Borders
Circus To Palestine
Triodos
Exeter Business School
